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Jun. 28th, 2018 | 10:30 pm

all those times we said, why didn't they just stop Hitler? Well, we have a do-over and we can get it right this time!

And all I've been able to do is donate, because my city, county and state are reliably Democratic. I feel even more helpless.

So I have a proposition. Anyone who lives in a red state or red district, I will personally support you in resisting the Republicans. You can make a difference! I will figuratively hold your hand if you

put up a yard or window sign, or a bumper sticker -- scary but even a few people doing that change the dynamic, makes others believe that there is hope.

post on Facebook - doesn't have to be all the time, doesn't have to be liberal screeds, just not Trump/Republicans

find a local Democratic group and call/text people for them

knock on doors (pre-selected for not committed to Trumpvision). Doing it in the next town or county might be less scary. This is known to be a huge factor in winning elections

talk to friends, neighbors and relatives, gently, providing a progressive view of things. Especially Independents. I will find you some reasonable talking points! Huge

I will be happy to call you, text you, IM you while you are doing this, I will cheer you on. I will go on Facebook and like your post. I I will send you gas money if you want to go and knock on doors. I will do anything to help you resist this literal fascjsm. Please let me?

Note to people in other countries: I will do the same for you, resisting authoritarians everywhere.

May. 29th, 2017 | 05:34 pm

You might or might not have noticed, but in the past month or so many journals have been suspended without warning or notification by LJ. This appears to be because LJ implemented a new script to catch spambots, except this new script seems to potentially mark as spam any post containing links that go out of the site (to Mega, MediaFire, etc.) Once a journal has been marked as "spambot," it will be deleted without warning or notice.

At the risk of succumbing to a slippery slope here, my main worry concerns item 6.1.1: "The Administration reserves the right to delete Account and Blog if User did not access the Account or the access was restricted for more than six months due to a breach hereof." There is a lot of fandom history on LJ on journals owned by people no longer active in the fandom, and possibly no longer even reachable. Now spambots are obviously less desirable on a site than old journals that haven't been updated since the Second Age, but content = server space = money, and an unused journal isn't holding its weight in terms of ad views either. It's digital dead weight.

Apr. 30th, 2017 | 07:30 pm

The latest attempt to repeal the ACA (which is designed to placate the Freedom Caucus) is now being opposed by some of the more moderate Republicans who were on board with the first attempt. With the House Republican leadership trying to figure out how to proceed next week, here's a target list of representatives who need to be contacted today or Monday to let them know you oppose ACA repeal.

Apr. 4th, 2017 | 09:09 pm

They are making us "sign" a user agreement in Russian. Who knows what they will choose to do with all our stories and conversations? I just hate this. So much lovely fandom memory is going to disappear.

Dreamwidth can import journals with default set to private, and there's something called https://www.blogbooker.com/ that charges $30 for up to 12 journals and creates PDF or Word docs from them. Keep whatever you can.

Jan. 9th, 2017 | 02:09 am

Just $10 donation to Planned Parenthood, you get 100 chances to win! PP is one of the most important groups in the country now, worth donating (you can always unsubscribe later if they send you too many begging emails). So doing a good thing and possibly getting an amazing thing! You can also buy gift certificates but they start at $25.